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Finding Cures. Saving Children.
Heather Conklin, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Pediatric Neuropsychologist, Brain Tumor Program
Departments
Behavioral Medicine
Contact Information
Heather Conklin, PhD
Behavioral Medicine
MS 740, Room S4034
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: heather.conklin@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-3585
FAX: 901) 595-4701
Education
BS - Duke University
MA - University of Minnesota
PhD - University of Minnesota
Research Interests
- Cognitive Functioning in Brain Tumor Survivors:
- Improving Specification of Cognitive Deficits following Brain Tumor Treatment
- Identifying Neurodevelopmental Changes Following Brain Tumor Treatment
- Delineating Risk and Resiliency Factors with Respect to Cognitive Outcome
- Identifying Interventions that Mitigate Cognitive Deficits
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- Neuropsychological Test Development:
- Improving Behavioral and Neurological Specificity
- Improving Ecological Validity
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Selected Publications
Conklin HM, Helton S, Khan RB, Reddick WE, Wu S, Xiong X, Mulhern RK. Predicting positive response to methylphenidate among long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2009 (in press).
Merchant TE, Conklin HM, Wu S, Lustig RH, Xiong X. Late effects of conformal radiation therapy for pediatric patients with low-grade glioma: Prospective evaluation of cognitive, endocrine and hearing deficits. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2009 (in press).
Conklin HM, Lawford J, Jasper B, Morris B, Howard SC, Ogg SW, Wu S, Xiong X, Khan RB. Side effects of methylphenidate in survivors of childhood cancer: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Pediatrics 2009 (in press).
Dolson EP, Conklin HM, Li C, Merchant TE. Predicting behavioral problems in craniopharyngioma survivors after conformal radiation therapy. Pediatric Blood & Cancer 52:860-864, 2009.
Jasper B, Conklin HM, Lawford J, Khan RB, Morris B, Howard SC, Wu S, Xiong X. Growth effects of methylphenidate among childhood cancer survivors: A 12-month case-matched open-label trial.Pediatric Blood & Cancer 52:39-43, 2009.
Conklin HM, Salorio CF, Slomine, BS. Working memory performance following pediatric traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury 22:847-857, 2008.
Conklin HM, Li C, Xiong X, Ogg RJ, Merchant TE. Predicting change in academic abilities after conformal radiation therapy for localized ependymoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology 26:3965-3970, 2008.
Hooper CJ, Luciana M, Wahlstrom D, Conklin, HM, Yarger RS. Personality correlates of Iowa Gambling Task Performance in Healthy Adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences 44:598-609, 2008.
Conklin HM, Khan RB, Reddick WE, Helton S, Brown R, Howard SC, Bonner M, Christensen R, Wu S, Xiong X, Mulhern RK. Acute neurocognitive response to methylphenidate among survivors of childhood cancer: A randomized, double-blind, cross-over trail. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 32:1127-1139, 2007.
Conklin HM, Luciana M, Hooper C, Yarger R. Working memory performance in typically developing children and adolescents: Behavioral evidence of protracted frontal lobe development. Dev Neuropsychol 31:103-128, 2007.
Luciana M, Conklin HM, Hooper C, Yarger R. The development of nonverbal working memory and executive control processes in adolescents. Child Development 76:697-712, 2005.
Conklin HM, Curtis CE, Calkins ME, Iacono WG. Working memory impairment in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives: Cognitive functioning shedding light on etiology. Neuropsychologia 43:930-942, 2005.
Hooper C, Luciana M, Conklin H, Yarger R. Adolescents’ performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: Implications for the development of decision-making and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Developmental Psychology 40:1148-1158, 2004.
Conklin HM, Iacono WG. The assessment of schizophrenia: Getting closer to the cause. Schizophrenia Bulletin 29:405-411, 2003.
Conklin HM, Calkins ME, Anderson CA, Dinzeo TJ, Iacono WG. Recognition memory for faces in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives. Neuropsychologia 40:2314-2324, 2002.
Conklin HM, Iacono WG. Schizophrenia: A neurodevelopmental perspective. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11:33-37, 2002.
Conklin HM, Curtis CE, Katsanis J, Iacono WG. Ms. Conklin and Colleagues Reply. Response to a letter to the editor, Verbal working memory impairment in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives. American Journal of Psychiatry 158:660a-661a, 2001.
Conklin HM, Curtis CE, Katsanis J, Iacono WG. Verbal working memory impairment in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives: Evidence from the digit span task. American Journal of Psychiatry 157:275-277, 2000.
Conklin HM, Polemics J. Brain dimorphisms and sex: A review. International Journal of Comparative Psychology 10:25-56, 1997.
Last update: May 2009
